Job Description

Trading Systems Support Analyst
Job code: 17000PMS
Date of publication: 2017-09-23 00:11:59.0
Starting date
2017-10-23 00:00:00.0
Job function
Information Technology
Business unit
Location
New York
Job type
Permanent contract
Environment
Within SOCIETE GENERALEs corporate and investment banking arm, the ITEC MARKET group is responsible for front-office to back systems development and support globally. Within this organization our department provides pricing, market connectivity, market-making tools, risk analysis, post trade processing and other trading system applications, The New York team is part of a global organization supporting trading activity in America, Europe and Asia. As this business evolves and continues to develop, we require dynamic and motivated resources to build the best and most effective technology environment in order to help the business reach its goals.
The MKT Fixed Income team develops and support software in an AGILE environment for price/inventory publication, inquiry management and straight through processing of electronic trades. Our software interacts with various external electronic trading systems and exchanges such as Bloomberg, Tradeweb, BrokerTec, Trad-X, MarketAxess, and direct client connectivity.

Mission
The position is for a support analyst with knowledge of the Fixed Income and currency business within the IT department (ITEC/MKT) in charge of Front office e-trading, trade capture, pricing, risk and market access technologies. Our main partners and clients are Traders, sales and e-business.
The position will be in the ITEC/MKT/FIC team, working on various Front Office fixed income trading applications. Support may include Forex (Cash and Option), Emerging products, Cash Rates, Derivatives and Credit

The position involves working closely with traders, business analysts and developers to deliver and support solutions to the trading and sales desk in a DevOps model environment. The communication skills of the candidate will be very important, since this role includes daily interaction with trader, sales and Oper people.

Candidates will be exposed to e-trading functions including streaming prices, trade STP, electronic trade execution, order management, and market depth aggregation. The candidate might also be exposed to advanced trading techniques such as intelligent auto-quoting and order routing, automatic hedging and automated trading strategies.

The team is part of the global team for the FIC activities and supports on a global platform. The team is based on the dealing room and manages applications deployed in Paris, London, New York and Asia.

Day to Day Responsibilities Include:
Provide timely resolution of functional and technical issues and report incidents to the appropriate chain of command. End users are Sales, Traders, Front and Middle Office in the FIC department.